Candidate in Wisconsin Supreme Court race uses images from Milwaukee parade in first ad

A conservative candidate in a pivotal race for Wisconsin Supreme Courtroom is utilizing video photographs of an SUV that drove via a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee, killing six individuals, in her first tv advert of the race launched Thursday.

Waukesha County Circuit Choose Jennifer Dorow gained nationwide consideration for presiding over the trial of Darrell Brooks, whom a jury convicted of six murder counts. Dorow sentenced Brooks to life in jail with no probability of launch and launched her candidacy for Supreme Courtroom two weeks later.

Dorow is one among 4 candidates, and one among two conservatives, within the race for an open state Supreme Courtroom seat that can decide whether or not the court docket stays below conservative management or flips to liberals. Each side see the race as essential due to the court docket’s position as the ultimate phrase in battleground Wisconsin, the place the Legislature is managed by Republicans and the governor is a Democrat.

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Whoever wins the April 4 election will decide majority management for the following two years. That interval consists of the 2024 presidential election. The state Supreme Courtroom dominated towards former President Donald Trump in a lawsuit he introduced after the 2020 election by which he tried to disqualify sufficient votes to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory.

A Feb. 21 major will slender the Supreme Courtroom race to the highest two vote-getters.

The contours of the court docket race, which is nonpartisan in identify solely, are shaping up very like the midterm elections. Conservative candidates are rallying round prison justice points, expertise and backing from regulation enforcement whereas liberals are specializing in abortion and speaking about points like redistricting.

In her first advert launched final week, Milwaukee County Circuit Choose Janet Protasiewicz guarantees to guard a lady’s proper to decide on an abortion.

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Dorow has been endorsed by Wisconsin Proper to Life, which solely backs candidates “who’ve pledged to champion pro-life values and stand with Wisconsin Proper to Life’s legislative technique,” based on its web site. Kelly is endorsed by Wisconsin Proper to Life and the state’s two different largest anti-abortion teams, Wisconsin Household Motion and Professional-Life Wisconsin.

The state Supreme Courtroom is predicted to finally determine a pending authorized problem to Wisconsin’s 1849 regulation banning abortions, which went into impact after the U.S. Supreme Courtroom overturned Roe v. Wade final yr.

The opposite two candidates are former conservative Wisconsin Supreme Courtroom Justice Dan Kelly and liberal Dane County Circuit Choose Everett Mitchell. Neither of them have launched tv adverts with the first lower than three weeks away.

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Not one of the different three candidates instantly responded to emails looking for touch upon the Dorow advert.

Dorow’s spot begins with a video of Brooks’ purple SUV driving into the trail of a marching band through the Waukesha parade in November 2021. Her advert doesn’t present the automobile hitting individuals, however she does embrace video that exhibits the response as individuals run and police reply.

“Choose Jennifer Dorow ensured justice was served,” the narrator says over photographs of Dorow within the courtroom, Brooks beginning at her and of him shirtless throughout a court docket listening to. Brooks was typically disruptive through the trial, and Dorow’s dealing with of his conduct through the nationally broadcast trial received her reward and her workplace was flooded with presents and congratulatory emails.